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Wide frequency range signal generator and method, and integrated circuit test system using same
 
   
Document Number
US Patent 7536618
Issued Date
May 19, 2009
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Rabe; Rob (Chanhassen, MN)
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Abstract
A signal generator produces an output clock signal by coupling an input clock signal through a plurality of divider circuits each of which is formed by a toggling flip-flop. The frequency of the output clock signal is adjusted by selecting the flip-flop to which the input clock signal is coupled. Retimer flip-flops may be coupled between adjacent flip-flips to resynchronize the signal being coupled through the flip-flops. Each of the retimer flip-flops receives a respective signal from the output of an upstream flip-flop at its data input, and it receives the input clock signal at its clock input. The flip-flop then applies the signal to a downstream flip-flop in synchronism with the input clock signal. The final two flip-flops through which the input signal is coupled may be preset to various states to set the phase of the output clock signal to one of four phases.
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Published
May 19, 2009
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11/442,515
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May 25, 2006
US Classification
714/731  
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G01R   31/28   (20060101)  
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714/731  
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